The site

Budj Bim, in southeastern Australia, is one of the world's oldest known aquaculture landscapes, shaped by Aboriginal Australian communities across thousands of years of occupation. Working the volcanic terrain, they built stone channels, weirs, and traps to farm eels, alongside evidence of settled village life. Spanning roughly 6000 BCE to 1800 CE, Budj Bim overturns old assumptions about hunter-gatherer mobility and sits on UNESCO's tentative list.

Field notes

civilizations

Aboriginal Australian

types

Village

occupied

6,000 BCE — 1,800 CE

country

Australia

elevation

178 m above sea level